Igor Markevitch
Born: 27th July 1912, Kiev, Ukraine
Died: 7th March 1983, Antibes, France
Nationality: Ukrainian
Igor Borisovich Markevitch was an avant-garde Russian composer and eminent conductor of Ukrainian origin who studied and worked in Paris and became a naturalized Italian and French citizen in 1947 and 1982 respectively. He was commissioned in 1929 for a piano concerto by impresario Serge Diaghilev of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.
Markevitch settled in Italy during World War II. After the war, he moved to Switzerland. He had an international conducting career from there. He was married twice and had three sons and two daughters.
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- Cantate (text by Jean Cocteau) (2)
- Cantique d’Amour (2)
- Cinéma-Ouverture (2)
- Complainte et Danse (1)
- Concerto Grosso (2)
- Hymne à la Mort (1)
- Hymnes (2)
- Icare (2)
- L’Envol d’Icare (3)
- La Taille de l’Homme (The Measure of Man) (2)
- Le Nouvel Âge (2)
- Le Paradis Perdu (Paradise Lost) (1)
- Lorenzo il Magnifico (2)
- Partita (1)
- Piano Concerto (2)
- Psaume (3)
- Psaume - Tehillim (1)
- Rébus (2)
- Sinfonietta in F (2)
- Stefan le poète (1)
- The Musical Offering (Orchestral Version on J.S. Bach's Work) (1)
- Variation, Fugue et Envoi (1)